Policy Summer 1992
Vol. 8 No. 4 (Summer, 1992) POLICY Magazine Summer 1992.-
FEATURE: Controlling The Tax Commissioner's Powers of Investigation
| 12 Dec 1992The Australian Tax Commissioner's powers of investigation should be fully enshrined in legislation and placed on a similar footing to the corresponding powers of police and customs authorities.
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FEATURE: The Maastricht Treaties: Building Fortress Europe
| 12 Dec 1992
The Maastricht Treaties will reinforce Europe's protectionist-corporatist trend to the detriment of democratic-parliamentary control and of Europe's openness to the world economy. These points were made at a seminar at the Centre for Independent Studies by Manfred Streit.
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FEATURE: Urban Freight: The Forgotten Agenda
| 12 Dec 1992Although urban-goods movement has attracted little attention from policymakers, the potential gains from policy reform in this area we are considerable.
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FEATURE: The Maori Fisheries Act 1989 and The Restoration of Maori Fishing Rights
| 12 Dec 1992New Zealand's Maori Fisheries Act 1989 provides for the recognition of Maori fishing rights secured under the Treaty of Waitangi and aims to facilitate Maori participation in the industry.
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FEATURE: Student Fees and The Demand For University Places
| 12 Dec 1992Higher student fees need not be inconsistent with equity considerations.
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FEATURE: Australia Should Dump Its Anti-Dumping Laws
| 12 Dec 1992
Dumping is widely thought to be unfair and injurious to Australia's domestic industries. The argument that dumping is generally beneficial to the importing country and that anti-dumping laws harm the prospects for world trade liberalisation.
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FEATURE: Flexible Intervention: Trade Reform in Korea and Singapore
| 12 Dec 1992Some Australian commentators have been showing interest recently in the industry policies pursued by several Asian countries. The argument that interventions in Korea and Singapore have been successfully disciplined by exposure to the international marketplace.
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FEATURE: Refugee Relief In The Post-Cold War World
| 12 Dec 1992Although there are few signs of a 'new world order' in the making, the end of the Cold War has created some scope for pre-empting refugee movements. William Maley explores the possibilities.
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FEATURE: Government in the Classroom: The World Environment Day Kit
| 12 Dec 1992An environmental-education kit issued in mid-1992 by the Commonwealth government to thousands of schools throughout Australia was quickly withdrawn after it attracted a storm of criticism. An assessment of the kit's value as an educational resource, deriving some lessons from the affair.
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BOOK REVIEW: Unemployment: 'Plenty We Can Do...'
| 12 Dec 1992Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and The Labour Market by Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell and Richard Jackman (Oxford University Press, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Protection Without Tariffs
| 12 Dec 1992Technical Barriers To Agricultural Trade by Jimmye Hillman (Westview Press, 1991.)
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FEATURE: Non-fiscal Federalism
| 12 Dec 1992Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy edited by Brian Galligan, Owen Hughes and Cliff Walsh (Allen & Unwin, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Mastering Comparisons
| 12 Dec 1992
Mastering Risk: Environment, Markets and Politics in Australian Economic History by Colin White (Oxford University Press, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Privatisation In Asia and The Pacific
| 12 Dec 1992
Privatisation and Public Enterprise: The Asia-Pacific Experience edited by Geela Gouri (Mohan Primlani for Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Regulating Britain's Privatised Utilities
| 12 Dec 1992
Regulators and the Market: An Assessment of the Growth of Regulation in the UK edited by Cento Veljanovski (Institute of Economic Affairs, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Beyond The Information Society
| 12 Dec 1992Beyond Universities: A New Republic of the Intellect by Douglas Hague (Institute of Economic Affairs, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Beyond The Treaty
| 12 Dec 1992Justice and the Maori: Maori Claims in New Zealand Political Argument in the 1980s by Andrew Sharp (Oxford University Press, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Agreement Is Everything
| 12 Dec 1992The Political Economy of James Buchanan by David Reisman (Macmillan, 1990.)
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NOTES & COMMENTS: The Tariff
| 12 Dec 1992The Tariff: An Expensive But Hidden Subsidy.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: The ANC's Policy Guide- Lines For A Democratic South Africa
| 12 Dec 1992Heady optimism in the aftermath of the successful referendum on reform in South Africa has collapsed into a slough of despondency amid continuing political violence.
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SCHOOL'S BRIEF: Unemployment: Dimensions, Causes and Policy Responses
| 12 Dec 1992An exploration of the dimensions and causes of current unemployment in Australia, and canvasses some policy responses.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Summer 1992
| 12 Dec 1992Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Summer 1992.
